जिस दिल में दर्द समाये

'Jis Dil Me Dard Samaye' is one of the twelve songs catalogued for the 1941 social drama Sajjan, composed by Pratap Mukherjee to lyrics by Pandit Phani. Its title points to a melancholic, reflective register. No audio recording or playback-singer credit survives for the song; it is preserved here as a documented entry from the era's film-song record rather than a listening item.

The phrase 'Jis Dil Me Dard Samaye' — the heart in which pain has settled, lodged — uses the verb 'samana' (to fit inside, to be contained) in a way that renders grief as something that has found its permanent dwelling. Pain does not merely visit: it settles, takes up residence. This is a specific phenomenology of grief that runs through Hindustani lyric poetry from Mir Taqi Mir through Faiz: sorrow is not an event but a condition, not a wound that heals but a presence that makes its home. Pandit Phani, the lyricist, was working within the Hindi-Urdu blended register common to Bombay social drama of the early 1940s. Pratap Mukherjee's slow composition would have given the words time to breathe — the melodic space for 'samaye' to resonate with its full weight of permanent occupation.

Sajjan (1941) was produced by Sudharshan Chitra and directed by Dwarka Khosla, with a cast that included David, Husn Bano, Jagdish Sethi, Satish, Agha, Gope, and Urmilla. Pratap Mukherjee composed the score to lyrics by Pandit Phani; twelve songs are catalogued from the film. The word 'sajjan' in Brajbhasha and Punjabi means a good person, a friend, or a beloved — making it both a character name and a thematic title that signals a film of moral character and emotional sincerity. 'Jis Dil Me Dard Samaye' is a slow melancholic number whose title places it among the film's more philosophically weighted songs — grief as a defining internal state rather than a passing emotion. No audio recording or playback-singer credit survives for this track in accessible sources.